DEAR VIDEO GAME EXPERT: Why are there all these useless trinkets hidden in hard to get places? Who put them there? Why am I compelled to collect them?- CHERORO

DEAR CHERORO: Our compulsion to collect things comes from our video game history. The first video games involved collecting berries while running from dinosaurs in real-life. Our ancestral reviewers saw these games as a perfect marriage between, "a soul-shattering experience and the need to survive." But as time went on, children's games like hide-and-seek gained unprecedented acclaim among kids. Following the trend, game inventors added hard to find things, like dead bodies or spousal infidelity, to these real-life video games for adults to enjoy. Many adults loved this new game mechanic, especially because they could collect jail time without parole. More recently, thanks to hi-tech technology, video gaming has gone totally digital. Anyone can collect hard to get things without ever exposing themselves to undue psychological damage, incarceration, or death.

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